Reading Room
Chosen for interest.
In Solarpunk, The Dispossessed, & Occupy Wall Street — a thesis tracing how degrowth politics take visual and narrative form across fiction and protest.
A paper tracing the calumet's role in Plains material culture, drawing on ceremonial pipes, photographs, and archival records.
Four prostitutions, four archives — a historiography essay on how police records, penny press, visual culture, and colonial administration each construct a different object of study.
Rastafari "return" to Ethiopia collides with the state's bureaucratic categories of land and citizenship, leaving returnees in a state of partial, never-fully-resolved belonging.
Walter Benjamin's flâneur as a mall rat: education should work like aimless wandering through the canon, using art and decadent counterculture to humanize students and unsettle institutional consensus rather than reinforce authority.
The Orphan of Zhao's six-century relay from Sima Qian to a Jesuit priest to Voltaire to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and what the accidents of that chain reveal about the West's appetite for China as a mirror.
The Orphan of Zhao's six-century journey presented in a different visual mode.
William Tolbert's 1976 state visit as a case study in reading a hegemon's own myth back to it: how a brittle, dependent regime briefly traded flattery for legitimacy inside America's Bicentennial mirror.
A historiographical audit of the case against J. Marion Sims — separating what his enslaved patients Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey actually endured from decades of scholarly embellishment, while still arguing his statues have to come down.